Good day "languages" community,

I use this opportunity to announce you that we have recently published a toolbox titled "Indigenous Languages and Knowledge on Wikimedia Projects Toolbox" on Meta. You can read it there https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Indigenous_Languages_and_Knowledge_on_Wikimedia_Projects_Toolbox. It is currently available in English and French. We are actively looking for translators, especially in Spanish.

This toolbox is the result of a partnership during the "Atikamekw Knowledge, Culture and Language in Wikimedia Project" that saw the creation of the Wikipetcia Atikamekw Nehiromowin, officially launched last June, where experienced Wikimedians from Wikimedia Canada partnered with local indigenous peoples from the Atikamekw communities as well as researchers to document the project. Those researchers are the authors of this toolbox, but nothing could have been possible without the great participation from Atikamekw contributors. You can learn more about the Atikamekw Project there: https://ca.wikimedia.org/wiki/Atikamekw_knowledge,_culture_and_language_in_Wikimedia_project. You can see the Wikipetcia Atikamekw Nehiromowin there: https://atj.wikipedia.org/wiki/Otitikowin.

The second thing I wanted to tell you is the official recognition of a new user group by the Wikimedia Affiliates Committee: the Wikimedians of North American Indigenous Languages User Group. You can see the user group's page on meta there: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedians_of_North_American_Indigenous_Languages_User_Group.

The mission of the user group is to support the creation and development of Wikimedia projects and other language-related free initiatives in indigenous languages of North America by creating a network of peer to peer collaboration among the North America indigenous peoples on Wikimedia projects, providing help and technical support from experienced Wikimedians, and developing education material about creating new Wikimedia projects in the indigenous and smaller languages' context

Anybody interested in any of those topics are invited to contact me.

Thank you all,

Jean-Philippe Béland

Vice President, Wikimedia Canada

Coordinator, Wikimedians of North American Indigenous Languages User Group

_______________________________________________
Languages mailing list
Languages@lists.wikimedia.org
https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/languages